Advantages of living in Europe (an american's POV)
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- čas přidán 15. 08. 2024
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Hey guys! This video just got picked up by the algorithm and a lot of you guys that aren't subscribed yet have been viewing it recently! I have TWO THINGS TO MENTION. First I know the audio in this video is not the greatest, I was back home in the US for the summer when filming this video in particular and I didn't have any proper place to film. This was filmed in an empty office in my mom's apartment building complex. Couldn't find anywhere else that was quiet or had half the amount of lighting as this place. SO for everyone mentioning the audio please excuse! Second, if you like this video's topic I have made another series on my channel called 'American Avoiding America' where I compare my experiences of living in Europe more specifically-France, England and Portugal to the USA, you can go check those out here> czcams.com/play/PLTlAr3qNXvWl4Gpae-QBHxfUk0XzomLz4.html So far i've covered topics such as healthcare, education system and I am open to other topics of course! Otherwise give this video a thumbs up and i'll know to make a part 2 of this video! All the best :) -Cecily
As an old Highlander once said "there is nothing in the Gaelic that can convey the urgency of insha'Allah".
In Greece if you go for coffee with a friend and you stay at the coffee shop less than 2 hours doesn't even count as "coffee" break. You must be in a hurry to stay for an hour or less
If do you think that in France they don’t rush, come to South of Spain…maximum level of “dolce far niente” lol
Interested you used Italian to describe it! I love the story of a visitor to the Outer Hebrides islands in Scotland, who was trying to explain the concept of 'Manana' to one of the locals. After some though the islander said " Oh no, there's no word in Gaelic for such a sense of urgency".
These are all of the things I want to focus on in my life! Everyday I’m wanting to move to Europe even more! Thank you:)
I think you need some furniture it sounds like you're speaking in a tunnel
i would love another video on this! as a french-american girl living in the us (but vacationing in france at the moment!!), i would love to study abroad in paris next year and definitely live somewhere in france in the future. the quality of life is just miles above the quality of life in the us, and it becomes so apparent every time i come here.
Agreed.
Really?? Is see many expats from Europe going to USA
@@moirangthemvishalsingh Sure, there are many people going each direction if the job calls for it. I returned two years ago.
@@moirangthemvishalsingh Some people move around to see the world learn new experience ,and some prefer stay in their little ghettos of safety and comfort, they do not know what they are missing--
It really makes me angry how much this generalizes for all of Europe... Or the EU? I don't know, what she is talking about. So she lived in France. Why not make out differences between the US and FRANCE. And that would still be very generalizing.
You use EU and Europe interchangeably. You know they're not the same, right?
In Italia we work to live , not live to work. Food is freshest of the fresh, vegetables, meat , fish, fruit, nobody buys processed stuff.travel fast ,cheap, safe , clean and comfortable, people so amicable. USA is the last place I would want to live in the modern world nations.
I envy you, speaking as an American college student. The USA is a fcking hellscape and Italy is one of the few countries on my list to visit.
I am Spanish and I have never had 1 hour for siesta, in my region siesta is not a thing. This is a terrible stereotype
No entienden el horario partido para la comida...no entienden el cierre de comercios a mediodía.....es algo raro para ellos y lo achacan al estereotipo que les llega....aquí en mi zona comemos y tomamos un café....su vida es tan estresada tras el dinero que no comprenden nuestro ritmo....
In the Canary Islands they 2 till 4pm
@@superman140256 ... normal, recién comidas una comida " de verdad' , aunque sea mediterránea y ligerita, te da más "vida " y es mejor para tu productividad un café tomado en buena compañía, que rebaja tu nivel de estresss y te mejora el humor y las ganas para la tarde.....el cansancio y la extenuación por un estresss continuado solo lleva a la enfermedad y el deterioro, de la persona y del trabajo... y no es realmente necesario, como lo demuestra que la gente vive bien así....
You could a video on this topic. I'd be interested to learn the differences between regions.
In Austria based on the labor law, you are allowed to take half an hour lunch breaks daily if you work 40 hrs a week. You are allowed to work 50 hrs per week max and only for acertain period of time, afterthat you must revert to 40 hrs, otherwise you and your employer would get fined. Side hustle doesn't pay off since by taking on a second job you enter another tax bracket and basically all the extra you make goes towards taxes.
Not all the extra, but its a significant amount.
should be added one needs to be careful not to sign a 39h/week contract
"Allowed"? I'm preeety sure it's not allowed but you actually have a right to.
In Germany this is based on how many hours you work. Up to 8 Hours you get 30 Minutes of break. The latest it has to be given to you is after 6 hours. If you work more than 8 hours you get 45 Minutes of break. These are the minumums required by law. Of course if your employer allows you can take longer breaks.
The maximum of work hours allowed per day is 10 hours. Unless you work in a shift system.
@@Quotenwagnerianer Yes its the same in Austria.
As a European I find this video a bit confusing. Are you talking about Europe or the EU? Sure, the EU is in Europe but more than a third of the European countries are not in the EU. Also, you should specify what country you are talking about, as a swede I didn’t recognise much of the things you mentioned. I hope I don’t come across as rude, that’s not my intention.
EU is the Europe ... outside of Europe and increasingly in Europe too. It is same as America and USA being used interchangeably. Every time I say I am European either online on irl to someone from another continent, they automatically assume I am from the EU. You might not like it but it is what it is.
@@lamebubblesflysohigh It just feels so ignorant and sloppy when you’re actually in Europe as a tourist.
@@lamebubblesflysohigh ...well educate them, the EU is not the Continent of Europe, for god's sakes some people think Africa is a country ...lol
@@lamebubblesflysohigh umm no??! And not to mention the differences between the countries in Europe is really rude of her.
@@glastonbury4304 sorry, it is not our place to educate Americans. I wouldn't dare to even try that, it would take a lifetime and it would have been wasted time as it is.
I always think it's so weird when Americans say "When I lived in Europe", instead of saying which countries they lived in.
Americans also often seem to think the the EU is a place, and that it's somehow the same as Europe.
It's not, it's an alliance, like NATO or the UN, where countries are members.
Nobody say they "live in NATO" just because they live in a country that is a member of NATO. Same with the EU. You can live in a country that is a member of the EU, but you don't live in EU, you live in the certain country in Europe. Also, there are a lot of countries in Europe that aren't members in the EU.
If you for instance lives/lived in France or Spain, it's better to name the video "The advantages of living in France/Spain" (An American's POV" than "Advantages of living in Europe (an american's POV)".
Its even very different in every country. Whether you live e.g. in Berlin or Munich is totally different.
Hay características comunes en los Estados europeos, como una idea de derechos laborales, solidaridad, justicia social aún en un entorno capitalista , servicios públicos apoyados por los impuestos, protección social...hay aspectos comunes a todos nuestros paises que ellos sienten como extraños y eso es lo que nos unifica como " Europa" para ellos.....la contraposición con " América" ( aunque en realidad son los Estados Unidos)
Muchas gracias por esta explicación! No es tan fácil explicarlo pero conseguiste las palabras perfectas.
@rosa b
It's true there are many European countries that are not part of the EU and she could have made that distinction, living in Europe is not necessarily the same as living in the EU. But if she has lived in three different European countries, it's just shorter to say she lived in Europe and that's totally fine.
And in my opinion there isn't anything wrong about saying "I live in the EU". Being part of the EU doesn't make anyone better but for sure it makes it easier to live, work and travel within the EU (and other Schengen territories). My family is split in 3 different EU countries, it is still considered living abroad, but we all have that notion and say we live in the EU.
Are you talking about the EU, Europe in general or a specific country? Where are you talking about?
I think you need sound proofing , your voice had a lot of echo .🇬🇧
I have met your kind of 'super efficient stores' in Europe as well, when I visited the Greek islands some decades ago. There was just everything you needed in one cramped store. The only store in that town/village to be precise. In Europe, if villages grew, usually stores split and became more specialized. Higher population density supports this kind of change (splitting one store into several, so each kids gets some). The cattle ranch I lived on in the USA has never been split though, because that would not work.
Actually, looking back I do notice a sharp decline in the number of stores. When I moved into my current home there was a grocery store, two banks and a baker less than a hundred meters away. They all closed down in the last 30 years and now I have to walk 20 minutes to a newly build group of stores.
That’s the “mistake from the last 40 years “ when every country tried to
“ become more like the US “ . Shopping malls etc. so the small shops downtown died out .
@@juergenwolf5476 There are more reasons than that. A new "Wohngebiet" was opened up and there was room for the current shops to expand to there. Plus a few hundred new potential customers. More parking spaces. Actually the business owners are the same. They enlarged their business, parking spaces and potential customers. Except for the few customers living very close to the old spot it was an improvement for everybody
To the peoole who think that it is all a big generalisation the only generalisation is that France and UK have proper employee rights decent healthcare proper minimum wages etc
The TGV, Schnell trein etc compete with air travel because of their speed. This has served as competition to lower travel prices, just one factor 😊
Train Grande Vitesse....
Hi, as you may or may not know, sound quality is more important than picture quality on CZcams, so my advice would be to do something about it if you plan to have more viewers. A room with less echo, and/or a better microphone would be nice. Anyways, that's not the worst sound quality ever, but there's room for improvement.
I noticed you forgot to mention you can also buy your guns and ammunition from the same 'super-efficient' shopping store.
Yup that would be Walmart.
@@CecilysPerspective As a moroccan,I'm interested in going to europe and even live there.
The Siesta in Spain is a stereotype. No one take a siesta or nap in a working day. It is something that you maybe do (but not mandatory) when on vacations, but I, as a 53 years Spaniard, never have seen anyone to make siesta during the lunch break. Never.
You think the EU is relaxed regarding time try Cyprus. The joke there is that it is 12 noon in London GMT, 13:00 in Paris CET, 1400 in Athens EET, in Cyprus it is Tuesday afternoon, isn't it?
The store thing is not about efficiency,
With the start of the cold war the American Dream changed into Work hard and you make it, making it meaning you gain money and social status -social status being defined by job and money. Because of that plus the size of the internal market ( very large so corporations could become quite powerful), the American life and society started to be shaped by advertising/marketing. What to eat for breakfast, what kind of house to live in, an education system focused on teaching kids how to get a job instead of providing an actual education and soon, pretty much all aspects of life.
That's how urban sprawling happened (the TV told people where they are supposed to live) and sprawling means low population density, shops could not survive so instead of walking 2 minutes to buy bread, you have to drive for 20 minutes. That leads to large chains and no independent shops and the stores are much larger as land is gonna be relatively cheap and the large chains can afford it, plus it makes sense to sell more things - the customer doesn't have to go elsewhere and the shop earns more so win-win. Drive-through also makes sense as most of the traffic is from people that are driving, not walking.
Travel, well a car is mandatory with urban sprawling and then, it's harder for alternatives to gain traction.
Work work work , well, American Dream and social status. The Dream used to be about freedom, equality, now it's a consumerist nonsense that, among other things promotes social status so inequality.
This is just a theory but at least for now, I don't have a better explanation as to why America is so upside-down at this point in its history.
About the pace and quality of life; Europe is disparate. I’m from Sweden and up here life is pretty fast paced. that being said, we curb this with strict laws around time off from work and a general view that free time should be spent outside, often doing physical activities. Several years ago, I moved to, and worked in, Spain. There’s several differences between Spain and Sweden, of course, but one that really stood out was life pace, in Spain it was “mañana mañana” with eeeeveeeerythiiiiing. Everything took forever to get done. I started working there and I was stressed out that “they didn’t do anything”, they were in turn stressed out by me. When I moved back to I Sweden, I nearly had a heart attack. People were so stressed! Things shouldn’t be done in an hour, they should already be done, an hour ago.
The thing is that this kind of can be seen as a general thing between the north and south. Not to get all nerdy, but there are social theories that this is coupled with the emergence of Protestant Christianity and capitalism (in the north of Europe) and the prevalence of Catholicism in the south.
If you look at Eastern Europe they work their asses of 24/7.
Europe isn't a country it's a continent
I see what you did there... "A shop solely for repairing shoes" Great vid!
2 week of holiday every 6 means 3 months of holiday per year, I guess just teachers have that, but during the summer.
That's indeed the vacation schedule for schools, not for the average Eureopean. We still have more vacation than the Americans but not that much.
Working for the french government, i have 25 paid vacations days (mandate by gvt for everyone). As i work 37.5h per week instead of the legal 35h/week, i get 15 more paid days off. If i take 8 vacations days between novembre and april, i get 2 more days as bonus. Wich means 42 days i can take whenever i want. Add to that 12 holydays (14 for me because of the area where i live). Of course, i can't choose when to take those holydays and some are "lost" if it's a saturday or sunday. But everything combined, i have more than 50 days off paid per year, which means 10 weeks (2 and a half months).
I thought that. It's definitely not even close to the usual vacation time.
In the land of the free you barely can move, that’s the real fact..,
...de echo, si, es algo malo que una persona deba conseguir su forma de vida de la " caridad". o. generosidad de un cliente en vez de un pago justo de la persona que se aprovecha de su honrado trabajo. Se llama justicia social, protección de los derechos del trabajador. ...en Europa se conoce bien...
...de hecho...me comí la h....😆
The echo on the sound is hard on my ears (I have hearing issues) but I like the vid.
All true!
🇧🇦 "still war in Bosnia?"
Hahaha. 92-95
wow a mad echo...sorry i could not understand the audio
Sound quality bad.😭
Sorry but E.U. , Europe and each specific European country
can never be seen from an objective perspectiv.
Even from an American view......
EU Is EU and Europe is Euorope are not same EU are a Trade Union with 27 countries members in and Free TRADE Free movement and Norway ,Iceland,Loshenstain and 1 more is in Singular Markst and Customs Union and also is in Free movement Rest of Europe is Not are Vis Passport and so on so Travel in EU are easy are Need separate those ❓
Leave your countries flag down below + tell me what you think is the biggest cliche about your country/continent?
🇺🇸 The world tends to believe that we are all hardcore patriots... We are not...
But soon I will adopt the 🇫🇷 flag. I move in 3 weeks!
🇪🇸: People tend to believe that in Spain we have an amazing life quality and, partly, if we compare with other countries, that's true. We have good weather, our food is amazing and national products are well-rated worldwide BUT finding a job here is difficult. And, what's more, finding a job with good conditions, is more difficult than the last situation 😅. Many young ppl (like me), we haven't finished university yet bt we already think about moving to Germany or other european country.
Aus: People think that Australians are going to die of a dangerous animal. This only happens very rarely and usually it's because people do not know what they are doing and swim in dangerous areas or don't know what to do if a snake bites them (fyi: don't try to kill it, try to move as little as possible and constrict the blood stream by wrapping in a bandage or tee-shirt from the bite up the limb). In reality Australia is a really safe and beautiful place! Don't be scared of the spiders people ahaha
🇺🇸 : Everyone thinks ALL Americans are obese. 😂
🇮🇹 are you afraid of being shot by the mafia?
How are you
Tudo bem! And you?
Y la sanidad, te has olvidado de la sanidad pública.
bad recording
Should is terrible
Im an american business owner...OWNER,its mine,I created it which you can do in the USA....opening places,4 of them at 18 years old,I can leave anytime I wish and I can stay gone a month if I wish....I dont get you get x amount of time of in europe,I can have all the time I wanted off in the USA anytime I wanted.....that I dont get.
i can go to lunch and simply not come back...I dont get it..1 hour for lunch?Ill take 2 days for lunch if I wish.....I dont get none of this bull sh**..this is bull sh*t...I feel sorry for her living in such a terrible place
It must be nice for you. Does your staff have the same rights as you?
@@billieyoung497 As the owner of a business, you can come and go whenever you want, which is not the case of your employees, right? Guess what? Everywhere in the world bosses do whatever they want... because they are the bosses.
And FYI, creating a business is not an American specificity. The thing is just that not everybody feels like creating one.
Ah yes, in no other country except the USA one can open a store, start a business, be an employer.
ROFL
Nice way of saying that you are clueless without saying you're clueless.
I am an Austrian employer, an electrician basically, i OWN my company.
I can work all the time if i want to, nobody would or could tell me to stop - besides my family and friends of course.
I am NOT employed. My employees have certain rights that i am NOT allowed to break. Its for their safety.
And no: They are not Unionized - but they could if they wanted to. Its their own decision and i have no say in that. But the Union has also no say on how i do my job or how my emplyoees work, they make the general contract every employee and employer must follow, but they have no say how the work is done - not like the harbor or factory workers in the US e.g.
We have mandatory social insurance and pension. I as being self employed have a 20% deductible, but pure employees have none.
Sure i COULD take off time, but my customers have a diffeent opinion about me getting time off on wednesday afternoon, and at the end of the day, my ccustomers pay me, my employees and my company expenses.
And i am lucky that i am totally fossil free since 2019, saves me a bunch of money every year.